This poem by David Whyte celebrates the profound clarity one gains by shedding who or what no longer serves them.
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A grassroots civil-dialogue movement creates a new kind of safe space: one that invites students from across the political spectrum to discuss controversial issues, including policing, gender identity, and free speech itself.
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Being an outsider can cause culture shock. But that doesn’t have to be a bad thing.
Five students from five different continents tell us how they adapted to a brand new culture when they first came to study abroad.
Dental school can be really hard. And throughout the day in the life as a dental student it can be easy to feel like you don't belong, that you're an imposter. In this video, Dani and I talk about our experiences dealing with imposter syndrome throughout dental school and as working dentists.
Today in my interactions with college students and young scientists in training, I’m often struck by the limits that they are placing on their own potential by comparing their achievements to those of others.
Imposter syndrome, alongside alcoholism and chronic insomnia, is one of the experiences key to the morbid trinity of student life; the quirks forming the foundation of every post on every university confessions page.
We’ve all heard the fake it till you make it a phenomenon. Like every student. A person with imposter syndrome can have all the training in the world with the finest degrees, and still not believe they have the right for people to recognize their accomplishments.
“Do you ever have feelings of self-doubt, that you’re not good enough or that you don’t belong?” we asked students in our Student Opinion question inspired by Smarter Living’s guide on “How to Overcome ‘Impostor Syndrome.’”
FIND YOUR STRENGTH: The Essential Self-Defense Guide for Every College Woman is more than a book focusing on physical techniques to thwart an attacker.